When we announced last week that we had purchased a Hall of Fame vote, making a mockery and farce of the process by which veteran baseball writers anoint the elect among retired ballplayers and usher them into the sacred temple at Cooperstown, we had one question: Will the takes be strong? Happily, they were.

It would strain even our resources to provide a comprehensive list of all the reactions to our announcement, but the following should prove a reasonably useful guide.

Brian Kenny, MLB Network

Vin Scully, Bill James, and John Thorn do not have Hall of Fame votes, but all three writers at GolfersWest.com do.... Deadspin’s inflammatory rhetoric concerning "the Hall of Fame ritual... dominated by neo-Puritan scolds, milquetoast handwringers, and straight-out dimwits," is also par for the course.

Steve Buckley, Boston Herald

There's absolutely no question that what Deadspin has done is wrong, and that doing so compromises them as a source of credible journalism... It's doing so at the cost of its own integrity, choosing to participate in a troubled process it is taking an active hand in making worse.

You can't dress up like the morality police when your organization's morals have been undermined. We see this play in politics all the time.

Jonah Keri, Grantland

Some guy on WLW, WLW

What you get from the Deadspin vote is something far more reflective of the general attitudes of regular baseball fans. To me it will be as if the public gets a vote... You'll have some that apply this very rigid standard, claim to take it really seriously, then vote for B.J. Surhoff and Brad Radke.

Mike Harrington, Buffalo News

The BBWAA could strip the ballots from every voter who's manifestly unqualified to vote and the results would be almost exactly the same.

Some guy on WGN, WGN

The fact Vin Scully doesn't get a vote? That's ridiculous. Deadspin is genius. I just like the alternative media. I enjoy... you know, and all these writers are standing up and saying "this is ridiculous." You know what's ridiculous? That Ron Santo didn't get into the HOF when he was alive.